The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-08-14
VOLUME XXI.

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He lived in Brooklyn and did his work
there. After they were completed
Doyle started out to circulate them.
He was captured with the bonds in his
possession on railroad train just be-
fore reaching Chicago. He had $47.-
600 in counterfeit money upon his per-
son. and if he had had but few min
ntes more he would have disposed of
his bonds. Smith got off by turning
States evidence and Brockway man.
aged to escape on the same grounds.
Doyle got twelve years in the peniten-
tiary and Brockway is now serving
five years sentence for having forged
some railroad bonds Smith confessed
while ON trial that he had been coun-
terfciting all the time that he had been
working for the Government, and 1t
was found that he had been counter
fciting 500 bills. l here looked at a
specimen Of Smiths counterfeiting.
His 500 bills would pass any where,
and the guard tells ME that one of the
lady counters detected this from her
familiarity with his work as a Govern
ment engraver. Like mans hand
writing. he could not disguise his orig
inality.
"IIavc any other of the Government
bonds been counterfcitcd?" asked the
guard.
Yes; there was a counterfeit several
years ago of the old 1880 issue. Jay
Cooke took number OF these bonds.
and the Treasury Department re-
deemed 1874, 900 Of them before their
character was discovered. The Gov
eminent had to enter suit to recover
the money. but it did so. and the banks
had to stand the loss. The most coun-
terfciting is done in connection with
small notes-ones, twos. fives and one
hundreds Less care is needed in pass
ing these. as people do not look at them
so closely. Here. however, is Curl
osity."
And the man held up $50 green
back.
THAT bill is one of the best counter
fcits in circulation, and il is made en-
tirely with the pen. Every line and dot.
with all the shades of green. black and
red of the regular 500 grcenback, are
reproduced here with skill that is
marvellous. We can not find the
counterfeitcr, and he has been circu-
lating these bills for years. There can
not be much profit in the counterfeit,
for it would certainly take many days
and probably weeks to pen out one Of
these bills"
Look at this 800 BILL" the blonde.
haired, thick-set guard went on.
THAT looks as though it would pass
does it not?"
Yes" said /.
"Well, sir, that is IS national banl
note raised to 800, and this raising o
bills is very common. Here is s
raised to $40. and so to 500 The plar
is to erase whatever may be necessar,
to the change from the bill by means
of acids and other chemicals, and thei
to put in new amounts by prints o
sometimes with the pen. Such bills do
not deceive men who are accustomed
to handle money, but they pass easil.
in the country districts. 1t is in tn
country that the most counterfeiting j
done and passed. The banks of the cit,
are expert and wary, and there is dan
ger of detection.
next picked up some IS notes, ant
the guard, picking up a IS, went on
That" said he, sis very dangerou
counterfeit, and tire plates from whic
it was produced are so near like TIL
genuine that they are almost perfect
We got $40. 900 of this money when W
captured the man who made them, an
there was great deal in circulation
Some was sent here for redemption
aud VIC detected the fraud by micro
scopic examination. The trouble wa
that the same plate was used for six o
eight different banks. They were mad
so that the name of the bank could b
changed, and when it was advertise
over the country that there were cour
terfcits of such bank issue, the
changed the name of the bank an
were thus enabled to get more upo
the market"
"How about the bank note paper
Can that be counterfeited?'
Eyes; Tom Ballard got thirty yeal
for succeeding at this. We convicte
him on two indictments for countel
fciting, and sent him to the Alban
Penitentiary for thirty years.
II notice that all this counterfe
money has the word "bad' cut int
them"
"Yes, we cut all counterfeit none
that way as soon rs it is received, an
we ruin the plates by gouging groove
through the engraving" ! looked ;
the engraved plates at this point an
found them cut this way and that, so ;
to utterly destroy the. design.
A curiosity in bad money was show
. me in the shape of $50 bill. Ever
bit of the paper and every line of Il
bill is genuine. And asked the gual
what he kept it for and why it was.
ut is not full bill." he reptile
l land if you will examine it careful
: you will see that it is made up
pieces pasted neatly together. II
: man who made this took twenty goo
$50 bills and he cut each into TWEEN
pieces and then put them togethe
leaving one piece out of each bill;
that at the close, instead of havir
twenty $50 bills, he had twenty-on
When he got through his bills look'
very we'll and they passed easily, b
after they had been handled two
: three times they began to show Il
$ seams and were easily detected. TIL
o method of making money is, howeve
= very difficult, and we get but very fe
such bills.
There was counterfeiting done du
+ ing the Confederacy, he went o
K "but the trouble was the counterfe
u of the Confederate money were bett
: than the originals, and the money So
g became so very worthless that it d
o not pay to counterfeit it.
q zone of the best counterfeits ev
" made was by an Ohio man named
rich. He made an excellent $50 a
500 plate. He was arrested in Cincl
n natl. and the plate secured. He "
N sentenced to the Ohio Penitential
p and while In confinement he engrav
p upon an old saw-blade an excelit
" portrait of Ex-Governor William !